Trump’s Defense Secretary Accidentally Texted Yemen War Plans to the Head Editor of The Atlantic

Journalists often dream of finding the right government leaker who can share with them detailed information about the internal workings of the federal government. Few journalists would presume, however, that the ideal leaker might, in fact, be the head of the U.S. Armed Services. That appears to have been what happened, when the U.S. Secretary of Defense and former Fox News personality Pete Hegseth reportedly texted detailed operational war plans to the head editor of The Atlantic. The editor in chief of the magazine, Jeffrey Goldberg, detailed in a new piece how it appears he was accidentally added to a message group on Signal by someone in the Trump White House. That message thread appears to have included prominent members of the Trump cabinet, including Hegseth, Vice President J.D. Vance, Director of the CIA John Ratcliffe, director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, national security advisor Michael Waltz, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, among others. Worse, the chat inv ... Read full article.